• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    18 hours ago

    I’m assuming the research more meant that there were 3 cryptic species lumped into what we today call t-rex

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      13 hours ago

      Oh yeah, that was my assumption, for sure, too. I was just playing devil’s advocate for the trenchcoat theory, because it’s funny.

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        10 hours ago

        Well I believe this has happened. Wasn’t brachiosaurus found to be a mashup of multiple species? Or maybe it was a different one…